This is the kit lens that comes with some of the Canon DSLR's. It is a nice lens that is built pretty good. Hey, for the price you can't go wrong. The quality of the photos are really nice; they give you this lens that makes very nice photos, but it's a low end lens and they know you will want to get an upgraded one after a while.

It focuses really fast and does not use your battery up any more than any other lens. I use this lens a lot when taking car shows and drag racing shots. I do hit the max zoom a lot and want more. I have discovered that using a circular polarizing filter, adjusted to just give a touch of the filters effect, improves the photos quality quite a bit. This is a great kick around general photo taking lens. You can most likely pick one up through Ebay or someplace for half the price listed.